Iraq Photos: Dec. 2 -Dec. 9

A U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Regiment infantry patrols in an alley in a market area in west Baquba, Friday, Dec. 7, 2007.

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A U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Regiment infantry striker brigade takes a portrait of an Iraqi worker for identification purposes during a patrol in west Baquba, Friday, Dec. 7, 2007.

A general view shows one of the hallways of Al-Ukhaidar Fortress built in the desert, 37 miles northwest of the shrine city of Karbala, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007.

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A U.S. soldier attached to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, patrols a street during a security operation in central Baquba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007. The Mickey Mouse logo is to advertise a local store.

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An injured young boy cries in the hospital in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007. The boy was injured in a car bomb explosion in the commercial area of Karradah Wednesday.

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An Iraqi woman prays as relatives carry the coffin of a victim of a car bomb that exploded Wednesday in the Karradah neighborhood of Baghdad, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007.

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A girl stands in line to receive medical aid distributed by Iraqi and U.S. troops in a school in Baquba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007.

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U.S. soldiers attached to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, take a break during a security operation in central Baquba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007.

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A U.S. soldier pays his last respects to his fallen comrade, Sgt. Blair W. Emery, a soldier from the 571st Military Police Company, during a memorial service at Camp Warhorse, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007.

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A displaced family from Diyala province waits in a bus in the Shaab neighborhood of northeastern Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Several families were forced to leave Diyala province due to increased violence in the region.

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An Iraqi soldier examines the wreckage, after a parked car bomb killed three Kurdish soldiers in Kirkuk, about 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007.

Credit: AP Photo/Emad Matti

Jabir Mohammed looks through the barrel of an old weapon he is restoring at his craft shop in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Mohammad has been restoring all types of weapons in Karbala for 45 years.

Credit: AP Photo/Ahmed al-Hussaini

U.S. soldiers with the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry out of Ft. Lewis, Wash., conduct house to house searches as the sun rises Monday, Dec. 3, 2007, in Mukhisa, Iraq.

An Iraqi woman prays during a pro-Sadrist protest against recent U.S. military raids that were targeting followers of the Shiite radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007.

Credit: AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani

An Iraqi woman walks past a U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Regiment infantry patrolling at a market area in Baquba, north of Baghdad, Monday, Dec. 3, 2007.

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An Iraqi child passes by as U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Regiment infantry division patrol a market area in Baquba, north of Baghdad, Monday, Dec. 3, 2007.

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Iraqis sit on the ground as they are momentarily detained by U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Regiment infantry and the Iraqi army to be questioned about an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) that went off near them during a U.S. patrol at a market area in Baquba, north of Baghdad, Monday, Dec. 3, 2007.

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An old Iraqi man looks on as a U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Regiment infantry searches the man's house during a patrol at a market area in Baquba, north of Baghdad, Monday, Dec. 3, 2007.